Yuri van Gelder, Dutch gymnast, went out for a few to celebrate making the final. Apparently he got carried away and had some alcohol (shock! horror!) and came home at some time in the morning. So the Dutch team have sent him home, without allowing him to participate in the final. His behaviour sounds slightly Read more about Dutch Olympians not allowed to drink? Are they reformed religious fanatics?[…]
When the world’s population passed seven billion people in 2011 we humans weighed, in total, 350 million tonnes. That weight is rising rapidly as our numbers are still growing and we are getting heavier. Back in 2011 each of us weighed, on average, just under eight stone. Around two billion of us were children then, Read more about Meat Eaters mapped[…]
Ars investigates legal advice for hotspot operators—most are ill-informed; the rest invented. […] According to the experts we consulted, anyone attempting to follow the recommendations could in practice be creating data protection liabilities that they’re ill-equipped to discharge. Others may be put off altogether by dire warnings about legal risks that simply don’t exist. Source: Read more about Public Wi-Fi hotspots and you: Busting the many legal myths in the UK[…]
“We believe that online voting, especially online voting in large scale, introduces great risk into the election system by threatening voters’ expectations of confidentiality, accountability and security of their votes and provides an avenue for malicious actors to manipulate the voting results,” Neil Jenkins, an official in the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications at the Read more about More than 30 states offer online voting, but experts warn it isn’t secure[…]
The web interface contains a number of critical vulnerabilities that can be abused by unauthenticated attackers. These consist of monitoring backdoors left in the PHP files that are supposed to be used by NUUO’s engineers, hardcoded credentials, poorly sanitised input and a buffer overflow which can be abused to achieve code execution on NUUO’s devices Read more about 7(!) remote vulnerabilities (RCE, bof) in Nuuo NVR and NETGEAR Surveillance products[…]
If you want to downgrade back to an earlier version, you used to have 30 days time to consider it. Now they’re only giving you 10 days. Source: Microsoft verkort bedenktijd Windows 10-upgrade They REALLY REALLY want you to run their spyware for them!
A new ransomlock variant, which mainly affects the US, tricks users into calling a toll-free number to reactivate their Windows computer. […] Victims of this threat can unlock their computer using the code: 8716098676542789 Source: New ransomware mimics Microsoft activation window | Symantec Connect Community It also turns out that calling the support number on Read more about New ransomware mimics Microsoft activation window[…]
The thermostat in question has a large LCD display, runs the operating system Linux, and has an SD card that allows users to load custom settings or wallpapers. The researchers found that the thermostat didn’t really check what kind of files it was running and executing. In theory, this would allow a malicious hacker to Read more about White hat Hackers Make the First-Ever Ransomware for Smart Thermostats[…]
A recent extension of UK copyright for industrially manufactured artistic works represents “a direct assault on the 3D printing revolution,” says Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge. The UK government last month extended copyright for designs from 25 years to the life of the designer plus 70 years. In practice, this is likely to mean a Read more about UK copyright extension on designed objects is “direct assault” on 3D printing. Also, how much money was UK gov paid to extend it 70+ years?[…]